It should stabilize soon I expect… flights are returning slowly but people will and should be vigilant for the next week.

Kinda neat about the human responses… sure some are trolling but maybe we have to test our global expectations. In North America, a car wash tends to be this garage thing with either automated cleaning or a set of supplies to clean your car, and your car has to be in the shed to be cleaned effectively. But if washing your car by hand is the norm, I wonder if people in some countries surmise that the cleaning staff could just walk over with the sponges, buckets and hoses and stuff to the car, if you’re already 50 metres away from the washing point.

I said on Friday that Trump probably timed his announcement, which was right at 4:30PM New York time, so it came after the NYSE closed to end the week high. Nobody looked at the comment…

All Trump was waiting for was the stock markets in New York to close for the week.

There are and still will be tariffs (like section 232 steel and softwood lumber)… but I think that it’s understood that he can no longer declare his hurt feelings as an emergency, and levy blanket tariffs on a country in response to anything he doesn’t like. The incompetent scraps left in his administration have to put together an explanation on what specifically is tariffed and why Congress had authorized it. It’s his choice to keep screaming “tariff” but those threats are emptier than ever.

Edit: See? His first “escalation threat” is a global tariff not really directed at anyone (aside from the USA)

While there are other ways Trump can still put in tariffs (Section 232 tariffs on steel and lumber stuff are still in place for example)…

This will put an end to Trump throwing around tariffs willy-nilly to get his way. Well, of course he still can threaten tariffs but those threats will be emptier than they’ve ever been.

Edit: See? His first escalation threat is a 10% tax on Americans for any import whatsoever. Not really directed at any country but their own.

Are we going to war with Iran today?

Steve Burke (of GN) described the absurdity pretty well, within the context of the currently uncertain Nvidia and OpenAI deal:

Nvidia offered OpenAI $100B in investment, money that it didn’t have, as long as OpenAI gave that money back to Nvidia to lease GPUs that haven’t been made, to then put in data centres that haven’t been constructed, which will be powered by electricity that hasn’t come online, to then rent to users who haven’t subscribed, to provide them features that haven’t come to fruition.

Billionaires and multinational companies are the real welfare queens, not your average joe or the bum on the street.

Makes me want a phone tree…

Thank you for calling. Are you trying to sell me something? Press 1 for yes, 2 for no.

Am I in trouble? Press 1 for yes, 2 for no.

Could you just have sent me a message instead? Press 1 for yes, 2 for no.

Oh, thank god, I was worried if there might not be a worldwide surveillance dragnet for in case I lost a pet iguana.

If you worked for GEO or CoreCivic, it should be a mark worse than a criminal record getting another job.

Two circles overlapping to become one.

They are done releasing the files they feel like releasing… there’s definitely more.

Confirmed this is official D-MOR intel, DHS and the Department of WAR (wimpy asshole regiments) are simply following protocol to achieve 200% OPSEC 🔥.

Who has more money? OpenAI needs buttloads of it right about now from all the promises they have made.

Hell, the Mexican colectivo van driver closes the sliding doors on his rattly 20 year old van simply by hard braking.

Don’t worry, America is skillfully avoiding the dust clouds by running in the fully opposite direction, towards irrelevance!

Yeah, here’s an opportunity for the Democrats to play “originalist” for once (DHS and subagencies didn’t exist in the time of founding fathers, why do we need it now!?!?), see how Republicans react 🤪.